[ale] distributed.net's rc5des client slow under anything

[Keith Morris]

Thanks Ben!  That is exactly what I was looking for.  Just a quick 
question.  I am trying to understand how some things work.  You said that 
this would be run as root.  Is that because it is run at startup run level? 
Just curious.

Keith

> >also, I am very new to linux, and would like to run this as what I would
> >call a "service" in NT.  i.e. have it run at system startup even before
> >anyone logs on and run in the background all the time.  Is there any way to
> >do this in linux.  I am using Mandrake 6.0 if that makes any difference.
>
>Yes, this can be done.  On Slackware, it's typically done by modifying
>/etc/rc.d/rc.local to run rc5des.  E.g., on my systems, I've added the
>lines
>
>echo "Running distributed.net RC5 client..."
>/home/ben/bovine/rc5des -quiet&
>
>I also use full pathnames for all of the files you can specify from
>rc5des -config, so I can be sure I know where they're going(e.g., don't
>specify relative pathnames).  Note that this runs rc5des as root.
>
>I'm not sure what form of startup files Mandrake uses, but there should
>be something similar.
>
>Ben
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